Upcoming Actions
February 20, 2025. Interfaith Concert, celebrating the LGBTQ+ community. All Peoples Unitarian Universalist Church, 1959 Sandy Lane, Fort Worth, 76112. Time to be determined.
February 22, 2025. Equality Texas Advocacy Training and Postcard Writing Party. Westside Unitarian Universalist Church, 901 Page St., Fort Worth, 76110. Time to be determined.
March 24, 2025. Equality Texas Advocacy Day in Austin. 9:00 a.m.
Contacts: Sheri Allen, cantorsheri@gmail.com Sarah Berel-Harrop, sberelharrop@uuma.org
Creating Welcoming Spaces . . .
Justice Network Tarrant County’s LGBTQ+ Action Team is excited to announce the launching of:
Justice Network Tarrant County Inclusion Guide:
How to Create Welcoming Spaces.
We invite you to use these resources to help you, your institution or congregation learn about what it really means to be an inclusive and affirming place for LGBTQ+ individuals, and how to further advocate for their needs and safety.
Our team is also happy to provide education around how to implement the suggestions in this guide effectively, and can arrange either zoom or in-person tutorials. Wherever you are in this process, we are here to help you ascend to the next level!
http://tinyurl.com/TCJNLGBTQResourceGuide
In friendship,
Cantor Sheri Allen, Chair, LGBTQ+ Action Team
Sarah Berel-Harrop, Resource Guide Team Leader
Cantor Sheri Allen (she, her)
cantorsheri@gmail.com
817/229-5140
We plan to participate in upcoming events for Transgender Day of Visibility, Transgender Day of Remembrance, and AIDS Day of Remembrance.
Interfaith Service, June 20, 2023, Celebration Community Church
Residents applaud on June 6, 2023 as speakers address Mayor Mattie Parker and Fort Worth City Council about the removal of a pride badge from the Mayor’s Summer Reading Challenge. (Rachel Behrndt | Fort Worth Report)
In the early summer of 2023 Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker, responding to several groups, including "For Liberty and Justice," removed the Pride badge from the city's children's summer reading program. Our LGBTQ+ Action Team showed up in force at the next City Council meeting, and penned a letter to the mayor which read, in part:
We take serious issue with the initial social media claim from this group that the reading challenge posed an “anti-biblical agenda toward children.” We feel that nothing could be further from the truth. Although we come from different faith traditions, we are in complete agreement when it comes to interpreting what Biblical texts teach us: that all children are made imago Dei, or B’Tzelem Eloheem, in the image of God. And if there is any “biblical agenda” at work here, it is one that demands that we not only affirm but celebrate each precious soul for living lives of authenticity.
Some of our clergy members have met with Mayor Parker several times since then, discussing ways to support the LGBTQ+ community in the future. These conversations will be ongoing.
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